When a person has healthy brain, he/she can have a better memory and concentration. He/she will also be better in managing stress and increases his/her calmness. His/her creativity will even improve. The performance of our brain relies greatly on our diet.

Good things for the brain
The brain has favorites. It has to have the following: oxygen, glucose and omega-3 fatty acids.

Bad things for the brain
The brain has dislikes. The following are not good for...

Driving phobia can occur when an individual undergo a traumatic event such as road accidents, near misses or even something mild (like feeling uncomfortable with high-speed freeways). Because humans have the tendency to associate familiar feelings to a particular situation, these traumatic events can slowly build into driving phobia. For example, you may feel uncomfortable about merging into highways and thus, every highway episodes will trigger memories of your initial uneasiness. Over...

Anxiety Disorders are diagnosed when people consistently feel fear and experience abnormal sympathetic nervous system arousal (aka the fight-or-flight reaction) despite the fact that there is no real threat or danger to the person, and to the point that it is interfering with their day-to-day lives.

We'll look at each of the major Anxiety Disorders below, along with movies that portray, some more successfully than others, the symptoms.

SPECIFIC PHOBIA

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We are often told to be persistent. Having a positive attitude and working hard towards a goal is the best way to get things done. It's true. The harder you work at something you want the more likely it will become a reality. Persistence pays off. Absolutely. So what is the draw back? Where does persistence end and obsession begin? What happens when we trip over the fine line between the two?

The Edge of Insanity

Where persistence is a good thing obsession...

One of the most frightening things you may find yourself experiencing is an anxiety attack. Anxiety attack is much more than the simple feeling of anxiousness about an upcoming test or speech that you will have to give in front of a crowd.

You could be doing anything from shopping, driving, watching TV, etc and suddenly, for no reason, your hit by an overwhelming sense of fear which does not relate to the situation at all. You heart is beating fast, you can't breathe...

Treating nervous behavior doesn't have to cost you an arm and a leg joining a special anxiety-based institute, or waste your precious time with psychotherapy. For one thing, analyzing to death your past may not get you anywhere. Rehashing your old memories may do more harm than good. You can go over and over again what happened to you as a child or young adult that forced anxiety and nervous behavior onto you, but it will not cure it. More often than not, knowing “why” is...

Do you have frequent panic attacks? Do you want to stop it without the need for medicine?

First of all, you need to understand that the intensity and frequency of a panic attack varies from person to person. However, reports have show that nearly every sufferer goes through a similar set of symptoms, with the overall fear that something awful is happening to them or that they are dying.

Some people get panic attacks in relation to situations in which even non-sufferers of...

Panic Disorder is defined by unexpected, but common panic or anxiety that usually occurs spontaneously: "out of nowhere ... without reason I felt chest pain and anxiety." Easy situational (phobic) panic may be found, but for the most part there is no consistent escape. Unexplainably, when panics {begin to occur in crowded areas, panickers tend to ascribe the episode to geoing to those placese, and they come to avoid crowded areas as per the condition called Agoraphobia with...

Migraine is the term used to describe a severe pain in the head. This can be cause by the contraction or dilatation of blood vessels in the brain and the irregular nerve activity mainly in the meninges. Migraine is caused by the stimulation of the trigeminal nerve, which release a substance inducing inflammation and also send messages to pain receptors in the meninges.

Migraines do not always require a prescribed or over the counter medicine. Migraines can be cured, or at the...

Ok, Here's how it goes, right?

I went for a job interview last week but because i have a mental illness i did not get it. It is not me that thinks they were out to get me, but they told me the reason. They said " Because of your instability at certain times we are unable to employ you". For blooming out loud, it was only a coffee shop. Not like i am working for the Queen.

I have Bi-Polar along with Depression, Social Anxiety and OCD. Not...